In retrospect, this gives me validation of why i always disliked to scan documents to PDF instead of to just JPEG.
But large document archives are traditionally done with TIFF, and should still be done like that.
But large document archives are traditionally done with TIFF, and should still be done like that.
Its actually nightmarish.
A silent corruption of court-documents, stored plans and land-records, patent-filings with the originals often permanently gone.
Contracts that can be nulled and voided by a hostile party on this basis by simply challenging the document on basis of the archiving process.
A error so deep and systematic, it even mangled the birth certificate of the us-president when it was scanned. The whole affair is a huge advertisement for keeping written records and avoid digitization, same as voting machines.
I didn't like any of the existing Linux scanning solutions, so I built my own paperless management tool. I was evaluating different compression algorithms for keeping authoritative masters and was eyeing JPEG2000 (I hate JPEG artifacts). But in the end I decided to go with FLIF, which is lossless. Despite its lower amount of battle testing, being lossless allows me to run a sha256 on the decompressed image and know that it is exactly what I had scanned in.